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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 1h

I listened to this podcast a while ago, on how an attempt to ban leaf blowers in LA, with celebrity backing, failed due to very real impacts on marginalised communities. The real solution would be economic redress, but they went with allowing the leaf blowers.

99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-...

The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars - 99% Invisible

The leaf blower is one of the most hated objects in the modern world. They’re loud, they pollute, and… how important is a leafless lawn anyway? In a lot of towns and cities, the gas-powered leaf blowe...

99percentinvisible.org

Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 1h

Most days all I need is a decent hug.

Alas, I remain hugless.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 1h

/gives heat pats

Well done, Tim!

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 7h

Also government feminism & DEI.

When basic participation requires privilege that excludes many of the people you serve, your institution is failing despite your female leaders and morning teas.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 7h

Ahh! That would have been so cool!

TSO always punches above its weight too.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 7h

See: the entire EIA process.

If the consultancy needs to please the client, and the client needs the approval...

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 1d

I used to offer to help activists to develop policy asks, to help shift the dial on their issues, but none ever took me up on it.

Making change happen is difficult, messy, confronting, and full of compromise. It can feel pretty icky at times.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 1d

This is a case for grief therapy, not a case for "AI" (LLM).

Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds like a Black Mirror episode I have already seen: people.com/alan-hamel-s...

Alan Hamel Creates AI Clone of Late Wife Suzanne Somers 2 Years After Her Death: 'You Can't Tell the Difference' (Exclusive)

Alan Hamel and Suzanne Somers enjoyed 55 years together before the actress' death at 76 in 2023. Hamel, 89, tells PEOPLE working hard on several projects that will keep Somers' legacy alive, including...

people.com

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Watercolours By Rachel @elidanza.bsky.social · 2d

Three little birds....

Happy Tuesday x

#watercolour #Britishbirds #birds #robin #watercolor #bluetit #watercolourpainting #wren #trees #leaves #wildlife #rsbp #artist #art #painting #birdwatching #paint #fun
#gardenbirds

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, thanks for the link. Gave them a serve about bike infrastructure. Pissed off about interminable questions about car parking and no questions on active transport constraints. So tired of this assumption that car parking is what brings trade when studies prove its not true.

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Ian Graves @xskinn.bsky.social · 2d

A serious post. Tomorrow in Vic there’ll be big wind storms so if you suffer from asthma,COPD or other forms of respiratory diseases please stay home. These storms can kill,so If you have to go out tomorrow wear a mask. Ian

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 2d

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 2d

We're all sick of the corporatised internet

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3d

"They have embraced analog music, print magazines and film cameras in a nostalgic turn toward tactility and authenticity. Fliers seem to have become a new way to get to those feelings — though many of the most eye-catching ones of late refer back inexorably to the logic of the internet."...

Little Fliers Everywhere

www.nytimes.com

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 2d

Fellow auto-immune dysfunction traveller. The work you do, the responsibility you take on, the constant striving to turn this foolish ship of humanity; they take a very real toll.

I wish you a full recovery and spoons to spare.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 22d

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22d

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22d

Fuckin yikes, man

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 4d

My sheets are on the line, baby!

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 4d

I think this is a US-specific thing, as this Au wonk has no idea what a state comment docket is.

Bsky: not just for Americans

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Marcy @macates.bsky.social · 4d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 5d

Eastern Australia’s population of humpback whales now surpasses pre-whaling numbers. The population, rebuilt from just 150 survivors in 1960s, may soon plateau as it reaches environmental limits.
Fix-the-News

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 4d

Wild.

And i do. Every year.

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 5d

Bil ol' moon

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Watercolours By Rachel @elidanza.bsky.social · 5d

Gannet , I love painting birds in full flight this gannet was no exception
Happy Saturday x

#watercolour #gannet #seabirds #movement #waves #watercolor #wings #watercolourpainting #wildlifeart #sea #wings #dive #birds #water #artist #art #painting

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 5d

Well this is quite lovely...

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Toni Fish @tonifish.bsky.social · 5d

New library book day!

What will i take away from these? Reading what calls from the shelves, rather than what's on my to read list and needs ordering in or purchasing.

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